Help, please - Mimaki CG-130 FX - How to read a print file for Cutting from RasterLink6 to FineCut8

we have a jv300 and cg160 fx plotter. All we do id either setup one print file on one layer in illustrator, the cut layer on another layer, and then the crop marks which automatically go to their own layer. switch off the layer that the cut marks are in (we do this as we colour these in magenta - old habbit form Roland days...) print the file just tell the rip how many copies. Go into illustrator switch off the print layer, switch on cut layer then in finecut you can tell the plotter how many rows and columns you have. It then looks for the crop marks for each one and plots and then repeats. The only downside is that depending on how big your crop marks are this can burn up quite a bit of media. In which case we would simply copy and paste the artwork for however many copies we need and put one set of crop marks round the whole job. Is a little more time consuming so we only do this if small labels etc and there are quite a lot of them, would probably limit the area the cope marks encase to around the width of the media by half a metre just to play safe on accuracy - Hope that makes sense?

 

We use Rasterlink with CorelDRAW. Much the same way. Layout the fifty in corel and use macros to create the cut layer, registration and cut marks. Should be a way one could record a script to do the same in illustrator. Corel has a step and repeat but I use a macro to do that too. We do this at each workstation so as to not tie up the RIP station. That way our print tech can keep things rolling.

p.s. some decals work best to have two cuts. One kiss cut and another offset contour about 1/8" around for the Half Cut.